The views from the beaches in Fiji and the cook Islands and the coastal roads in NZ were stunning, but this was breath taking. We heard about the Blue Mountains from a guy in one of the dorms in Sydney, he insisted we go and loads of companies ran tours there so we figured it was worth a look. We got a train to the main town Katoomba and booked into my second favourite hostel to date, The Flying Fox. Just like someone's home, free choc biscuits, mulled wine in t...

My birthday was just round they corner so I decided I didn't want to spend it in the city. We'd heard from a day tripper to South Sea Island in Fiji, that the beaches north of Sydney were really beautiful, but to go a bit more north to avoid the crowds. We checked our faithful guide book and it listed them, Avalon won our vote so we jumped on a bus and headed on our way. Avalon is a really nice sea side town. It was little cafes and fun little shops and a really...

AUSTRALIA! Woohoo. We arrived in Oz unaware that it was Mardi Gras, one of the biggest weekends in the Sydney calender, so of course everywhere was really booked up! Luckily, as usual, we found somewhere calle dBoomerang that was near the centre. We spent the next couple days doing the tourist thing. The opera house was never something that really appealed to me but of course we went there to say we'd done it and in fact it is beautiful. Nothing like I expected...

White Sandy Beach was beautiful. We met a lovely group of people there, we played Uno, that was tres fun!!! The sea was fantastic we spent most of the day in ti. Then there was a massive storm and you could barely see through the rain drops, so we went back in the sea, it was great, a beautiful memory I will keep forever. We also played in the rain with a football, rugby ball (which was actually a coconut) and then we husked(i say we, Dave and Ollie did it) and ...

The next resort, down the beach from Nabua Lodge was called Safe Landing. Dave and Abbie didn't like Safe Landing. Our first tip off that it was ney good was when we arrived there was a fat, white, Australian man sat in the dining area counting money! Instead of welcoming us, he looked at us funny and finally when we approached him, he screeched at one of the Fijian girls to deal with us. After we had been 'dealt with' he decided to bestow upon us his conversat...